Official Secrets Act

Official Secrets Act
a British law that aims to prevent important government information from being passed to enemies. People who work for many government departments must ‘sign the Official Secrets Act’, i.e. sign a document saying that they will not discuss their work with anybody who has not also signed the Act. People who break this rule may be sent to prison.

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